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A piece I wrote on one of the most fascinating and incredible thriftstore finds I've ever stumbled upon.
The Edwardians and Victorians were not like us, they believed in a nobility of their political class that's almost impossible to understand or relate to, and that believe, that attribution of nobility is tied up with something even more mysterious: their belief in the fundamental nobility of rhetoric.
Still not sure entirely how I feel about this, or how sure I am of my conclusions but this has had me spellbound in fascination and so I wrote about it.
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Nice post. I’d argue that the distancing from oratory also had a lot to do with the lack of belief in God and losing the rituals of the church after the world wars.
The problem of evil looms large over Christianity when the evil is so palpable and undeniable.
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